Reading Response

     A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children is a unique short story. This short story was detailed very thoroughly which helped me visualized many scenes in the story. Few examples of where the author helped portray great details were about the weather and the angel. Throughout the story, the author managed to depict how the rainy the days were. Such as describing how gloomy, dark, or dull the weather was. One quote from the short story that gave a great example of the weather was: "Sea and sky were a single ash-gray and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish." Another quote that gave a great example of how the angel was described was: " There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked were forever entangled in the mud."
     I found this story very interesting. I enjoyed how vivid the details were. I liked how the author used weather as good or bad examples throughout the story. Overall this story was interesting and had a great plot.